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Sampling of Letters and Op-eds From Florida News Sites...
Letters
Bradenton Herald:
"You also stated you are ashamed that America has become a nation in decline. What about the pre-Civil Rights Acts era? Mrs. Obama lived during that era, which accounts for her statement "for the first time I am proud to be an American."
And last,...
Citrus County Chronicle:
"This governor refused to approve the pipeline that would have given many people jobs, people who are actually living on food stamps and what little help they can find. The pipeline would have given many people a start to rebuild their lives, feed...
Bradenton Herald:
"Eric Kantor, John Boehner and all the other Republicans who look up to Ronald Reagan as their idol need to stop lying about what he did and said in his administration.
The current Republican Party continues to not tell the truth regarding Social...
Florida Today:
"The ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), signed by President George W. Bush and later by President Obama, did not get the necessary votes in the Senate.
The UN treaty is not a law and does not change...
Naples Daily News:
"During the Thanksgiving week I realized how thankful I am for all of the new cultural and environmental venues we have now.
We have Naples Botanical Garden, Rookery Bay, The Conservancy Discovery Center and Wildlife Hospital, Naples Zoo, the...
TCPalm:
"This past year of the presidential election (TV, newspapers, radio, cold telephone calls, etc.) manifested an exacerbating apathy to me and others and we can't stand it anymore.To solve this debacle, I propose:"
Sarasota Herald-Tribune:
"Recent news of yet another Sarasota police officer brutalizing a citizen is very alarming. The two recent police-inflicted batterings happened to be caught on video surveillance cameras, but one can assume that many others have not."
Tampa Bay Times:
"Citrus County is just another victim of a big private corporation's attempted bullying. Because Duke Energy has more money than the county, it feels it can do whatever it wants. If I could quit doing business with these incompetents I would, but...
Naples Daily News:
"We're spending outrageous amounts of borrowed money to put off the inevitable civil war in that country. Instead, we should have dropped our support after their first ambush of U.S. troops."
Sarasota Herald-Tribune:
"The Tea Party and its politicized, evangelical cohort are not content with behaving like a responsible loyal opposition. Instead, they roil with fury, denouncing the legitimacy of those who govern without their consent.
They refuse to negotiate...
Op-Eds
Tampa Bay Times:
"Our board is deep into a two-year process to redefine Bayfront's future in a way that propels it toward our goal to be our community's pre-eminent provider of health care services of the highest quality. Central to this redefinition is a...
Gainesville Sun:
"If we want America's students to arrive at college ready for postsecondary work, then we must improve our country's systems for evaluating high schools. California just put forward a great model for reform. What we need now is for the rest of the...
Tallahassee Democrat:
"Two thousand dollars — approximately what middle-class families stand to lose — is not play money to families. It’s the difference between traveling to see family over the holidays, or not; buying gifts, for loved ones or not; making it, or not. We...
Tampa Tribune:
"For years, state legislatures have been disinvesting in public colleges and universities, leaving campus administrators to struggle with how to make do with less. The result: rising debt, deferred maintenance for aging facilities, reductions in...
Gainesville Sun:
"While EPA is prepared to finalize these rules next year under its consent decree obligations, it is also prepared not to move forward and instead defer to Florida's rules for any Florida waters that become protected under state law in accordance...
Palm Beach Post:
"We are all well served to remember that life turns on a dime. Stem cells offer hope. Hope to uncover and cure childhood disorders. Hope of alleviating the burdens of aging. Hope for patients such as Sabrina that one day, hopefully soon, paralysis...
News-Sun, Sebring:
"Now, as the GOP regroups from its electoral debacle, public criticisms of conservative dogmas have expanded beyond a small circle of dissidents. Prominent conservatives are saying heretical things that would have gotten them tarred, feathered, and...
St. Augustine Record:
"Florida Medicaid is the fourth largest Medicaid program in the country in terms of enrollment and the fifth largest nationwide in Medicaid expenditures. The Agency understands that sometimes recipients can get confused about the enrollment process...
Orlando Sentinel:
"On Sept. 11, NASA deployed a Global Hawk unmanned aircraft into the heart of Nadine, a tropical storm brewing east of the Caribbean. The aircraft's 26-hour mission was the longest continuous period a storm had ever been investigated. The unmanned...
Tampa Tribune:
"Lawton Chiles was different. He called his approach to government "more steering, less rowing" from Tallahassee, and spoke of "right-sizing" state agencies, rather than "down-sizing." The last Democrat elected governor, he had the misfortune to...
